Bright Data Browser API review

Bright Data's Browser API, which its FAQ also calls Scraping Browser, is the proxy giant's answer to hosted browsers. It runs headful Chromium browsers that you control from Puppeteer, Playwright or Selenium by changing one endpoint, and it handles CAPTCHA solving, fingerprinting, retries, headers, cookies and JavaScript rendering behind the scenes using Bright Data's own proxy network. The pricing page lists a free tier with 1GB a month, pay as you go from $5 per GB with no monthly commitment, slider-based Scale plans and Enterprise packages with SSO and audit logs; pay as you go and Scale both allow unlimited concurrent sessions. From our location the plan cards showed local currency, and the vendor notes that charges are billed in USD, so we quote only the $5 per GB rate shown in dollars. Because you pay for traffic rather than time, image-heavy pages cost more. It is a strong choice for protected targets, less so for long agent sessions.

Who it is for

Scraping teams hitting heavily protected sites who want proxies and unblocking bundled into the browser.

Price

Free tier with 1GB a month; pay as you go from $5 per GB; Scale plans and Enterprise available.

Browser API Starts from $5/GB
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 7, 2026.

Key features

• Built-in website unlocking and CAPTCHA solving
• Automatic proxy management from Bright Data's network
• Headful Chromium browsers tuned for scraping
• Single endpoint change for Puppeteer, Playwright or Selenium
• Unlimited concurrent sessions on pay as you go

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Unblocking, retries and fingerprinting are handled for you
• Strength: No concurrency cap on pay as you go
• Strength: Payment through AWS Marketplace is available
• Weakness: Plan cards showed local currency from our location; only the per-GB rate showed in USD
• Weakness: Billing by traffic makes heavy pages expensive
• Weakness: Built for data collection rather than agent task flows

Key facts

• Free tier: 1GB included per month, no credit card
• Pay as you go: From $5 per GB
• Concurrency: Unlimited concurrent sessions
• Frameworks: Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium
• Customers: 50,000+ worldwide per the vendor

Where it ranks

Bright Data Browser API is No. 9 in our Best Browser Automation Tools verdict.